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Revolutionary Summer
by Joseph J. Ellis
The summer of 1776 on both tracks: the political declaration in Philadelphia and the military disaster in New York, and how independence survived losing. Short and gripping.
Read it if…
you want 1776 in two hundred pages.
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Skip it if…
you read McCullough's 1776.
Try instead: The Cause →
Three things you will actually use
- Declare, then survive.
- Political and military success need not coincide.
- Retreat is sometimes the strategy.
Do this first
Read the chapters on Long Island.
Our verdict
1776, short.
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